>> pelley: tonight, a terror plot aimed at the heart of america's financial system. fors say a bangledeshy man was caught today in a scheme to blow up the federal reserve bank of new york. john miller is on the case. scoring the presidential doubt. >> production is down. >> no, it isn't. >> production on government land of oil is down 14%. >> pelley: each accusedly the other of not speaking the truth. we'll sort out the facts with wyatt andrews, nancy cordes, and jan crawford. lance armstrong resigns today and is fired repeatedly by his sponsors. >> if you have a doping offense or it's positive it goes without saying that you're fired. >> pelley: and john blackstone in san francisco with the fastest boats on the bay, looking to capture a wave of new fans.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the f.b.i. says it has arrested a young man in a manhattan hotel today as he pushed the buttons to set off what he believed was a massive truck bomb outside the federal reserve bank of new york. what the man didn't know was that his accomplices worked for the f.b.i. the plot unfolded in the heart of lower manhattan, a few blocks from the former world trade center site. the federal reserve bank of new york is vital to the nation's financial system. it is the clearing house for the transactions of the nation's largest banks. and the storage site of vast reserves of gold. senior correspondent john miller has been talking to his source at the foeb, and he has details of the plot and the suspect. >> reporter: quazi mohammad nafis came to the u.s. from bangledesh on a student visa to

study at southeast missouri state university. he caught the f.b.i.'s attention allegedly in an extremist online chat room trying to form a terror cell. agents posing as al qaeda facilitators arranged a meeting with nafis, in which he allegedly laid out his plan to attack new york city. an f.b.i. affidavit alleges that nafis helped building a 1,000-pound bomb in a long island warehouse. in audio and videotaped conversations with an f.b.i. informant, nafis allegedly said he wanted to "destroy america" on behalf of al qaeda. according to the f.b.i., while planning the bombing, nafis told an undercover agent, "what i really mean is that i don't want something that's, like, small. i just want something big, something very big." this morning, the 21-year-old allegedly drove a van he believed carried the bomb downtown and parked it in front of the federal reserve bank of new york.

nafis walked a short distance to this hotel, where the f.b.i. says he then recorded a video claiming responsibility for the attack. agents then say he used a cell phone to remotely detonate the device, but the ingredients the f.b.i. had provided for the bomb were harmless. nafis was arrested moments later. new york city police commissioner ray kelly. >> this individual came here with the express purpose of committing a terrorist act. he was motivated by al qaeda, so we see this threat as, you know, being with us for a long time to come. >> reporter: it is possible they may take other people into custody in this case. they are looking at, at least five other people that they are talking to who are associates of nafis. scott, nafis, if convicted in this case, could face life in prison. >> pelley: john, it was about eight months ago that a man who thought he was blowing up the united states capitol was arrested in a very similar sting operation. how often is the f.b.i. doing this kind of operation?

>> reporter: scott, in the universe of cases since 9/11, there have been about 300 arrests in terrorism cases. of that, about 100 have involved plots. and of those, about a quarter of them, 25 or so, have involved things just like this-- actual stings where people carried what they believed to be real bombs to launch attacks. so a lot more often than the general public is really aware. >> pelley: is this al qaeda? >> reporter: this is al qaeda's narrative, which is now on the loose in the internet chat rooms without even having to be driven by spokespeople like osama bin laden. and it's like a spreading cancer even today. >> pelley: self-motivated individual terrorists. >> reporter: right, and loan wolfs who seek others and put together small crews. >> pelley: last night's presidential debate was the most rancorous in history. folks have been talking all day about who won. we did an instant poll last night of 500 uncommitted voters

and 37% said the president won. 30% said, no, it was governor romney. 33% said it was just a tie. after their first debate two weeks ago, romney made serious gains in the swing states among women who had been trending toward the president. after last night, our poll of uncommitted voters found 39% of the women thought mr. obama won. 29% mr. romney. 33% a tie. nancy cordes is covering the obama campaign for us tonight. nancy. >> reporter: scott, one of the president's main goals last night was to try to bring some of those women back into the fold. in fact, both men shared personal stories that were designed to appeal to women, though in one notable case, that may have backfired. an audience member, katherine fenton, gave both candidates the perfect opening. >> in what new ways do you intend to rectify the

inequalities in its workplace, specifically regarding female who make only 72% of what their male counter parts earn. >> catherine, this was a great question. i was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. >> reporter: president obama pointed out the first bill he signed when he took office gave women more leeway to sue employers over unequal pay. >> i have two daughters and i want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. >> reporter: romney argued he made hiring women a priority when he was elected governor of massachusetts in 2002. >> we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's groups and said can you help us find folks? they brought us whole binders full of women. >> reporter: today, jesse mermell, who oversaw the group that compiled those binders said this in a conference wall with reporters-- >> "to be perfectly clear, mitt

romney did not request those resumes. after the election, our group approached the romney transition team with the resumes or so-called binders of women. >> reporter: in the debate, romney argued of it the slow case of recovery under mr. obama that was really hurting working women. >> there are 3.5 million more women living in poverty today than when the president took office. in the last four years, women have lost 580,000 jobs. >> reporter: both the president and governor romney have a history of higher strong women. the president's secretary of state is a woman. the governor's chief of staff is a woman. but what probably matters most to women voters, scott, is which candidate they think will do a better job putting women and men back to work in the next four years. >> pelley: nancy, in our poll last night, we asked which candidate would do a better job handling the economy. nearly twice as many said governor romney. 65% to 34%. but, president obama led on

handling foreign policy 55% to 43%. governor romney went after the president last night on the subject of the terror attack on the u.s. consulate in libya that killed the u.s. ambassador and three other americans. jan crawford is with the romney campaign tonight. jan. >> reporter: well, scott, for weeks, republicans have said the president's reluctant to call the attacks terrorism is a sign his administration doesn't have a competent national security policy. last night, the president said he did call it an act of terror within 24 hours of the attacks. that is a new explanation and it triggered a clash between the president, romney, and the debate moderator. >> i think it's interesting the president just said something which-- which is that on the day after the attack he went in the rose garden and said that this was an act of terror. you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror? it was not a spontaneous

demonstration is that what you're saying. >> please proceed, governor. >> i-- i-- i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> get the transcript. >> reporter: the transcript of the president's comment in the rose garden the day after the attack shows he does use those words. >> no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for." >> reporter: but with that statement, mr. obama didn't directly say the libya attack qualified as one of those acts of terror. earlier in his remarks, he seemed to suggest the attacks instead were triggered by an anti-muslim video. >> we reject all effort effortso denigrate the religious beliefs of others, but there is absolute no justification to this type of senseless violence. >> reporter: top administration officials, including u.n. ambassador susan rice, delivered that message over the next five days.

of on "face the nation" rice suggested the benghazi incident might have been triggered by demstrailingses in cairo over the film. >> it began spontaneously in benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in cairo. >> reporter: and for two weeks, the president declined to call it terrorism. but debate moderator candy crawley accepted the president's interpretation last night telling romney. >> he did, in fact, sir. so let me call it an act of terror. >> you can say that a little louder, candy? >> he did call it an act of terror. >> reporter: now, many republicans say they think that romney missed a real opportunity last night to forcefully challenge crawley and the president over what they say, scott, is a new timeline that just doesn't square with the facts. >> pelley: jan, thanks very much. the candidates aren't the only ones to make a mistake. we made a mistake.

in our coverage of the memorial service for u.s. ambassador chris stevens who was killed in libya, we said stevens left behind a wife and two children. we were wrong about that. stevens was not married and had no children. at the debate with more than 65 million people watching on tv, the candidates were literally face to face, toe to toe, pointing fingers at one another, each man challenging the truthfulness of just about everything that the other man said. no issue was hotter than drilling for oil and gas, and we asked wyatt andrews to do some drilling for the facts. >> in the last four years, you cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters in half. >> not true, governor romney. governor, we have actually produced more oil-- >> no, no, how much did you cut licenses and permits on federal land and federal waters. >> governor romney, here's what we did. there were ace whole bunch of oil companies-- >> i had a question, and the question was how much did you cut them by? >> reporter: behind this tense confrontation, mitt romney's

basic claim is the president could have leased more public land and produces more domestic energy. >> production is up. >> production is down. >> no it isn't, production is down 14%. >> reporter: romney's 14% statistic comes from this department of natural report, but he has focused only on one year, the year after the historic b.p. accident which led to a suspension on deepwater oil extraction. according to the interior department, romney is correct that the total number of energy leases on federal land is down sharply. the president argued that federal leases don't always lead to wells, and that in any event, domestic energy is increasing. >> oil production is up. natural gas production is up. >> reporter: energy department reports confirm that. compared to the last year of the bush administration, oil production is up almost 13%, natural gas is up more than 14%. the disagreement and the tension here began with a question over

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around the mark. >> these catamarans maneuver on a tight course, traveling at up to 35 miles per hour. fast enough to impress even a champion snow boarder. >> i see the faces of those guys when i was out just riding along, and, man, everyone is just sweating bullets, panting, doing everything they can. i mean, they're athletes. >> reporter: right now, they're training for the main event, the americas cup competition next summer on san francisco bay. the boats then will be almost twice as big and nearly a third faster. the boats have become so expensive to build, america's cup sailor sailors are hoping tn help guarantee the future of the 161-year-old race. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

this is 9news now. >> we begin with a developing story tonight at 7:00. a man is under arrest allegedly for plotting to blow up the federal reserve building in manhattan. federal authorities say the suspect was nabbed during a sting operation and the public was never in any danger. cbs's reports from new york. >> federal authorities say 21- year-old quazi mohammad rezwanul ahsan nafis wanted to die as a martyr. he came here with a student visa in january to attend southeast missouri state university where he was to study cyber security. but he reportedly relocated to new york after just one semester. according to a law enforcement source, the fbi became aware. he claimed to have